Carson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1944 · most notably Marks v. State (1909), State v. Parker (1914)
36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Pollard · Clark v. State · Woodson v. Murdock · Merkle v. State · Wright v. People
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was competent for the witness * * * to testify to his opinion as to the intoxicating properties of the bitters proved to have been sold by the defendant. This is a matter of common knowledge, where a witness is shown to have had an opportunity of personal observation, or of experience, such as to enable him to form a correct opinion. It is not required that he should be a technical expert.” (Carson v. State, 69 Ala. 240 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.